Title

Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang at Coney Island, New York, USA, 1912. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Members of the Lenox Avenue Gang at Coney Island, New York, USA, 1912. The Lenox Avenue Gang was one of the most violent New York organised crime gangs of the pre-Prohibition period. The four men in the photograph are Francesco Cirofici, Jacob Seidenschner, Louis Rosenberg and the gang's leader, Harry 'Gyp the Blood' Horowitz (1889-1914), They were later executed for the murder of Herman 'Beansie' Rosenthal, a prominent gambler and police informant, on 16 July 1912.
Historica Graphica Collection

Date

1864

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D78_378

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

40,2Mb (2,1Mb) / 11,1in x 14,1in / 3321 x 4234 (300dpi)

Keywords

portrait female women woman people male man men tie New York New York City posing country law guy crime clothes KILLER dead death gang dress location century Brooklyn criminal accessory lady concept gangster B&W MONOCHROME murderer United States of America United States Group Portrait black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century Coney Island American America USA executed TGN photograph portrait organised crime Unknown Jacob Louis Francesco Herman Harry Rosenthal Historica Graphica Collection Rosenberg Lenox Avenue Gang Francesco Cirofici Cirofici Jacob Seidenscher Seidenscher Louis Rosenberg Harry Horowitz Horowitz Gyp the Blood Herman Rosenthal Herman Rosenthal photograph portrait